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tuberculate

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -layt, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
tubercular
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Many coarse hairs unite to form coarse tufts which are stouter and nearly erect toward the base of the cap, and give the surface a tuberculate appearance.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

Fruit bristly or tuberculate, with rather prominent equal ribs.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Calyx, 5 rounded sepals, tuberculate at the base, imbricated, caducous.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

CHARACTER.—Molars tuberculate; infra-orbital opening sub-typical, not much narrowed below, and the perpendicular plate little developed; large internal cheek pouches.—Alston.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

The skin on the dorsum is weakly tuberculate and that on the anterior part of the flanks is areolate.

From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman


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